Culture Buzz Be careful, everyone — January 1st is the deadliest day of the year for pedestrians (because they are drunk and get hit by cars). So strap on a walking helmet, exchange your champagne for yellow seltzer, and rent a pony.
CBS launched a mobile photo upload app for the iPhone yesterday, and it quickly become a repository of NSFW images. The app lets users send photos like the one below directly to CBSeyemobile.com — they’ve since been trying to clean up the site, but a recent visit turned up photos of a dead horse and a cover shot of Rough Riders magazine.
In the third installment of one of the funniest series online, Jen Kirkman tells us about George Washington’s favorite slave, Oney. If only this was how we were taught history in high school, maybe we would have stayed in that AP class after all.
Video footage of a drunken Belarusian soccer referee being helped off the field. Referee Sergei Shmolik had to be helped as he staggered off the field during a match in Minsk over the weekend. He complained of back pain but blood tests showed he was just really drunk, which seems like a natural mistake to make.
The country star steps in to haul an unruly fan onstage. McGraw later said the man in the white hat was attacking some woman in the audience. After seeing the guy was safely in the arms of security, McGraw picked up singing “I ain’t looking for trouble” without missing a beat.
Tech Buzz A site devoted to the bad party photos of strangers. Plucking images from Flickr, reading through Sorry I Missed Your Party is like going through your camera the morning after and discovering a bunch of photos you A) don’t remember taking, or B) wish you hadn’t taken.